Review
This is a most welcome update of a book I have been using in my classes for many years. The book outlines borderland history thoroughly and concisely, followed by a well-informed and insightful account of the present-day challenges confronting border dwellers on both sides of the line. The extensive new materials and well-chosen illustrations add punch and urgency to an already-engaging text. -- Michael Dear, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Ganster and David Lorey present an outstanding survey of the forces, processes, and events that have produced the vibrant transnational economy and society for which the border region is known. This latest edition provides valuable recent data and timely updates on many subjects, including security concerns, migration, drug trafficking, and environmental issues. Because of its comprehensiveness, clarity, statistical tables, and wonderful photographs, this book will prove extremely useful for anyone interested in the borderlands. -- Oscar J. Martinez, University of Arizona
The U.S.-Mexican Border Today is a finely written, comprehensive view into human and environmental conditions in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. The third edition provides students and scholars alike with a broad look at the most pertinent issues affecting how people, and the local flora and fauna, live and interact in a society influenced directly by major global issues—the movement of goods and people, multiculturalism and communication, the environment, and public security and the criminal element. -- Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino
Review
An excellent synthesis. This book fulfills its purpose well. ― Multicultural Review
[This] brief but comprehensive survey emphasizes economic, social, and demographic changes along the U.S.-Mexican border. ― Choice
An excellent, comprehensive treatment of the recent history of the U.S.-Mexican border area [that] explains the important social, political, and economic developments in the region in a clear and accessible manner. -- Linda B. Hall, University of New Mexico
A major interpretation of one of the world's most intriguing areas—the U.S.-Mexico Border, la frontera. To date, the very best single synthesis of the salient themes and issues of the twentieth-century border. -- David R. Maciel, California State University
A well-organized and highly readable study of the border as a frontier, an international boundary, and a region. The authors take a complex subject and make it understandable, even for those with little or no familiarity with the theme. The range of topics and the breadth of the time period covered are well conceived. The authors clearly demonstrate the accuracy of their observation that the reality of the border is far more interesting than popular myths and stereotypes suggest. -- Don M. Coerver, Texas Christian University
About the Author
Paul Ganster is professor of history and director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias at San Diego State University.
David E. Lorey was director of the U.S.–Latin American Relations Program at the Hewlett Foundation from 1997 to 2003.
